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200,000 fish dead
Plankton bloom causes losses reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars
<!-- by line -->By Carolyn Quek & Jessica Lim
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MORE than 200,000 fish - almost the entire stocks of 13 fish farms here - have been wiped out by a plankton bloom in the waters off Pasir Ris Beach.
The problem started about 10 days ago and may get worse. The fish in farms further out at sea, near Pulau Ubin, are beginning to die as well.
Already, fish farmers who spoke to The Straits Times are describing their losses as the biggest in the 10 years they have been in business.
Six farmers say they have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars from these stocks, cultivated over the last two years; the tiger garoupas had been primed for harvest for next month's Chinese New Year.
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) explained that plankton blooms occur when one species of these drifting marine organisms predominates over others and multiplies quickly.
The rapid increase in the number of these organisms drains the seawater of oxygen, which leads to fish and other animals suffocating. The fish farmers say this is the first time their businesses have been hit in this way.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times. [email protected]
[email protected]
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200,000 fish dead
Plankton bloom causes losses reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars
<!-- by line -->By Carolyn Quek & Jessica Lim
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MORE than 200,000 fish - almost the entire stocks of 13 fish farms here - have been wiped out by a plankton bloom in the waters off Pasir Ris Beach.
The problem started about 10 days ago and may get worse. The fish in farms further out at sea, near Pulau Ubin, are beginning to die as well.
Already, fish farmers who spoke to The Straits Times are describing their losses as the biggest in the 10 years they have been in business.
Six farmers say they have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars from these stocks, cultivated over the last two years; the tiger garoupas had been primed for harvest for next month's Chinese New Year.
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) explained that plankton blooms occur when one species of these drifting marine organisms predominates over others and multiplies quickly.
The rapid increase in the number of these organisms drains the seawater of oxygen, which leads to fish and other animals suffocating. The fish farmers say this is the first time their businesses have been hit in this way.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times. [email protected]
[email protected]
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...or figuring out hard about his own people, who has kidney problems, four kids & then can fark & produce another 2. WHat to do already farked...let us move on!!!
